DMUK Meeting - UCL

Wednesday 18 Jan 2017, 08:45 → 16:45 Europe/London

Haldane Room (University College London)

Chamkaur Ghag (UCL), James Dobson (University College London)

This is a 1-day meeting for the UK's Dark Matter community to meet up, present research, and discuss the latest progress in the field.

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)

09:10 → 09:45 Dark Matter Heating

Speaker: Prof. Read Justin (University of Surrey)

Slides DM_heating.pdf

09:45 → 10:20 Dark Matter searches at the LHC

Speaker: Dr Sarah Malik (Imperial College London)

Slides DMUK-UCL2017-smalik.pdf

10:20 → 10:55 Axions and non-WIMP searches

Speaker: Dr Edward Daw (The University of Sheffield)

Slides axion_overview.pdf

10:55 → 11:25 Break

Tea and coffee available

11:25 → 12:00 WIMP Direct Detection

Speaker: Dr Asher Kaboth (RHUL)

Slides DirectDetection_2017_01_18.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Results from the LUX experiment

Speaker: Dr Sally Shaw (University College London)

Slides DMUK_LUX_SShaw_180117.pdf

12:20 → 12:40 The DEAP-3600 experiment at SNOLab

Speaker: Mr Franco La Zia (Royal Holloway University of London)

Slides DMUK17_francolazia.pdf

12:40 → 13:00 Low-background radio-assay capability in the UK

Speaker: Dr Paul Scovell (University of Oxford)

Slides UKScreeningDMUK.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:20 Direct Detection of Nuclear Dark Matter Using Tonne-Scale Experiments

Speaker: Mr Alistair Butcher (Royal Holloway University of London)

Slides abutcherDMUKJan2017.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Directional dark matter searches with the DRIFT and CYGNUS-TPC experiments

Speaker: Mr Andrew Scarff (University of Sheffield)

Slides DRIFT-CYGNUS_DMUK_18Jan2017.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 The LZ experimental hardware systems

Speaker: Dr Brais Lopez Paredes (Imperial College London)

Slides DMUKLZHD20170118.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 15:40 Software development for the LZ experiment

Speaker: Dr James Dobson (University College London)

Slides JDobson_LZ_Software_DMUK_UCL_180117.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Indirect dark matter searches and CTA

Speaker: Dr Anthony Brown (Durham University)

Slides Brown_CTA_DMUK_v2.pptx

16:00 → 16:20 Directional detectors with polarised targets

Speaker: Mr Tarso Franarin (King's College London)

Slides UCL.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 The SABRE dark matter search experiment

Speaker: Dr Francis Froborg (Imperial College London)

Slides DMUK2017_Froborg.pdf